The Vatican Library is the custodian of a major part of humanity’s literary heritage. That includes more than 80,000 ancient ...

A new Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition in Paris showcases never-before-seen paintings that shed new light on the artist.

Art review. SMK Copenhagen, National Museum of Denmark, presents the most comprehensive exhibition of sculpture by ...

Leonardo da Vinci was almost 23 years older than Michelangelo Buonarroti Simoni ... saw sculpture as fundamentally less noble than painting, writing that if “that man… had known as much ...

The artist was clear that he considered himself ... The two sketches have been combined for the first time in this exhibition. Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese, 1475–Rome, 1564), “Study ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti, the 15th-to-16th-century sculptor ... forms and cast each in a marble composite to get closer to the artist’s original material, before hand-finishing the final sculpture.

What emerges is a unique exploration of the artist. Gipsafstøbning efter Michelangelo Buonarroti, Davids hoved. Original 1501-1504, afstøbning 1890. Den Kgl. Afstøbningssamling, SMK. Foto: SMK In the ...

Thursday, March 6, marked the 550th anniversary of the birth of Michelangelo Buonarroti. He won’t be blowing out any candles, of course, but his work retains its grip on the public imagination.

that they can seem to have arrived fully formed—not from the hand of an artist but from that of a god. Still, we well know that Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) sweated, cussed and toiled.